The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-26
Nobody VIII Employ Them, While Thei
Rir Slaters Have Fine ~SItuatIOna.

Nobody VIII Employ Them, While Their
Big Sisters Have Fine Situations.
Few have any idea of the trials and
~tribulations Of cultivated women small IN
stature, who seek honest employment in
this city. The little lady may be modest,
pretty, neatly dressed, affable in CONVEX
sation and agreeable in manner, yet al
most every avenue leading to a respect
able living is closed to her. The shop
keeper picks his female help in the spirit
that animates him when he makes a dis
play of goods in his windows. And 1t
must be confessed that practically, If not
theoretically, he is right. A commanding
and fine looking woman will sell q seal
skin cloak in five cases out of six where q
little body would fail. The big woman
can cxpatiate more grandly on its merits,
and by wrapping it around her and parad-
ing before o mirror, show 1t off in NIL its
perfection. The little lady may be refined
gold, but there is nothing impressive
about her. Her small stature is q mis-
fortune. that she cannot remedy. She can
not become n floor walker In a dry goods
emporium, for she lacks the sweep and
carriage and the lordly aplomb which awe
employees and attract purchasers. She
has great trouble in securing even a place
behind the counter. Her fragility and
tiny size are in the way. She cannot
reach the goods on a top shelf, nor can
she return them after q sale is made with
out climbing to the counter, which un-
graceful act would quench the last spark
Of dignity left by nature at her birth.
She is out of place again in the parlors
Of q fashionable millincr or drcssmaker.
You may find her sitting In q little back
,oo,, o1saf-t.- ,ttt,1fo~ 1ryn i~ n had
light and q worse atmosphere, with her
see her in the salesroom. IA small
woman is out Of place in a showroom
said the proprietor Of a fashion warehouse,
when one of her friends sought o situation
for a worthy but undersized lady. ~
have no use for her there. She CANNOT
sell even a pattern. People will not go to
her. They will hardly ask her a question,
They spass her by as though she was Q
child, and go to q salcswoman more sty'
lish and commanding. Ohe Is prominent
and the other Insignificant in appearance
and the prominent figure invariably at
tracts attention."
A place for the little lady was found II
the mailing department ut SO o week. Al
the same time a tall woman of good figure
who carried her head like a Juno, neither
well educated nor particularly agreeable
wa placed In the show room at $l4 pei
week. She was not rs refined or as pains
taking as tho little one, but she had tn,
physique so highly priced by an expert
cnced modiste. The little one toiled tel
hours a day with hardly q respite, Will,
the big walked grandly up ant
down the parlor experimenting sales ant
keeping everything trim.
Petite women arc rarely employed o.
forcwomen in large business houses. Sucl
situations are almost invariably filled b!
ladies OF regular figure and hauteur. i
few are pretty, some arc intellectual, ant
less arc charming. Many arc Amazon.
by nature as well as In appearance. The!
are mado majestic by size and bearing
alone, and are nearly destitute Of feeling
fof those Of smaller stature whose line
are not cast in places SO pleasant. Sucl
forcwomcn command from $40 to 500
week. They can DO found In every estab
lishmcnt where fashionable female attir,
Is sold. Salaries seem to be proportional
to the size Of tho ONE employed, ant
not on her ability. There are hundred
Of little women holding comparativel,
pleasant situations, but ever in these the,
labor under natural disadvantages. Tn
salaries are light, and their figures forbit
promotion. Tho little ones are to b
pitied.-Ncw York Mail and Express.